Karso
Chainpur block · Palamu
district, Jharkhand · PIN 822125
· village code 366733
Population 2011
3,560
Census of India
Population 2020
3,760
Mission Antyodaya survey
Change
+5.6%
200 people · 0.6% a year
Households
750
+17.2% vs 640 in 2011
Census 2011
Total population
3,560
Male / female
1,852 / 1,708
Sex ratio females per 1,000 males
922
Children aged 0–6
691
Literacy rate
47.6%
Scheduled Caste / Scheduled Tribe
805 / 1,078
Working population
1,436
Of workers, in agriculture cultivators and farm labour
85.9%
Households
640
Village facilities, 2020
Primary school
Yes
Middle school
Yes
High school
Yes
Piped tap water nearest 5 km away
No
All-weather road nearest 5 km away
No
Public transport nearest 5 km away
No
Electricity
>12 hrs
Bank nearest 5 km away
No
Primary health centre nearest 5 km away
No
Anganwadi
Yes
Internet
No
Common service centre
Colocated with Panchayat Bhawan
The village primary school
These figures sit inside a single merged column of the Mission
Antyodaya file and are not published anywhere in readable form.
Students
700
Teachers
15
Students per teacher
47
Electricity
Yes
Toilets
Both
Computer lab
No
Playground
Yes
Drinking water
Yes
Mid-day meal
No
Farming
Farm households
500
Non-farm households
200
Share of households farming, 2020
71%
Net sown area
100 ha
Kharif / rabi / other hidden inside one column
50 / 50 / 100
Main irrigation source
Ground water (tube well/well/pump)
Gram panchayat finances, 2024–25
XV Finance Commission grant for
Karso panchayat, Chainpur zila parishad.
These are the panchayat's own accounts, not this village's: where a panchayat
holds several villages, the money covers all of them, and where a village
spans several panchayats only this one's return appears.
Opening balance
₹17.56 lakh
Received from state (auto-transfer)
₹11.40 lakh
Received directly
₹47,909
Spent
₹27.47 lakh
Unspent at year end
₹1.96 lakh
Untied (basic grant)
opened ₹4.96 lakh · received ₹4.56 lakh · spent ₹9.90 lakh · left ₹10,598
Tied (earmarked)
opened ₹12.59 lakh · received ₹6.84 lakh · spent ₹17.58 lakh · left ₹1.85 lakh
Source: eGramSwaraj, as reported by the panchayat. Untied and tied
together make up the totals above.
Location
24.0180, 84.0522 —
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